This is an analysis of the poem Numbers that begins with:

Trefoil and Quatrefoil!
What shaped those destinied small silent leaves... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdecdfefgcXgXa ahchiiijkj bcbcckakak agdgdgXhdhdhkhgg Xaccaaa lmlgmckggeekc bicbcindn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,10,10,16,7,13,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100 1111001101 11001001 111101 0101 0101101 0101001 1011 11101101 0010101 0110001 110111 1111010 1100110001 100011100001 11100110 0111 10010 1111001 11010001 10111 011011 1100101 0110111 10001101 0101010 011101 11110110 10101111 110110 11101001 1010111 11101101 11110111010 0101001 11010001010010 101111 101010 11111 01110101101 110011000101 10110101 11111 001001010 111111 1001011 100111 11101101 101100111111 1011010010 1001011 110111 110101 1001 01001001 10111 101001001 111011 10011 10010 001011 110110 10100111 01011110 10010110 1011011 101111 11111110 101010 110111 01001001 00101111 111 011101 0110101 011110111 0111101001 11011101 11001001 011011 110101 000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, beyond are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, before, because are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines slaves is repeated).

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